Man arrested after motorcyclist is seriously injured in crash

A motorcyclist was put into intensive care after being seriously injured in a crash.

The Earlsheaton man, 55, was driving a Yamaha motorbike which collided with a Vauxhall Astra in Leeds Road, Dewsbury, at the junction with Bennett Lane, at 8.15pm on Friday.

The motorcyclist had been heading along the A653 Leeds Road towards Leeds and the Astra had been travelling in the opposite direction and was turning right into Bennett Lane at the time of collision.

The driver of the Astra, a 25-year-old man from Dewsbury, has been arrested on suspicion of being unfit to drive through drink or drugs.

Anyone who witnessed the crash or saw the vehicles involved in the time leading up to it is asked to contact Sergeant James Farrar of the Western Area Safer Roads and Neighbourhood Support team on 101, quoting log number 1608 of June 24.